You're my typo person

Go ahead, misspell with pride. Using lewk, werk or teh doesn't make you illiterate. It just means you're part of the online world

- By Christalle Fernandes

Are you OK? Or are you okay, okie, okiii, okai or kk? If you text, you already know that each of those responses mean vastly different things. You know, without taking a Coursera lesson on the subject, how old someone is by the way they greet you: Hello, heyyy or hieeee.

But text-speak has been throwing up new complications. The way you misspell words online matters, too. Earlier this year, news went viral after user Libby Stigaard mentioned that her “phone just autocorrected trauma dumping to trauma dumpling”. She celebrated the error with a sketch of a potsticker, with dark circles and a moping expression. It was the pivot the internet didn’t know it needed. Who wouldn’t want a trauma dumpling, really? Hold the sauce.

Another in-the-know error: Using car when you mean cat. You can always tell who’s out of touch by the well-meaning corrections in the comments.